Luke 1:36-48

³⁶And you know your cousin Elizabeth? Everyone reckoned she is too old to have a baby, but now she is carrying one inside her. She has been carrying it for the last 6 months, and soon she will have a baby.

³⁷You see, God can do anything. Nothing is too hard for him.”

³⁸Mary said, “All right then, I will do whatever God wants. I want everything to happen just like you have said.” Then Gabriel left her.

³⁹A few days later Mary got up and quickly went south to a town in the hilly part of the country called Judea.

⁴⁰Zechariah and Elizabeth lived in that town. Mary went to their house, and went in and said, “Hello cousin” to Elizabeth.

⁴¹As soon as Elizabeth heard Mary say those words, she felt her baby jump inside her. And the Holy Spirit came into her,

⁴²and she talked really loud, she said, “God is really good to you, and he is making you happy. He is being more good to you than to any other woman. And he is being really good to your baby, too.

⁴³I’m not important, but you are the mother of my leader, the one from God. It is really good of you to visit me.

⁴⁴You see, as soon as I heard you say ‘hello,’ my baby inside me was so happy he jumped.

⁴⁵Yes, you believed that God will do everything he told you, and that makes you very happy.”

⁴⁶Mary said, “God is really good and really great. I feel that really deep inside myself, and I want to tell it to everybody.

⁴⁷God is the one that saves me, so my spirit is really happy.

⁴⁸God knew that I was not important, but he picked me, and now everyone will say that God has been good to me.